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14 July 2017
Women who contract Zika virus when they're pregnant are at risk of the infection spreading to the baby's brain and causing the condition microcephaly. This is how the emergence and recent epidemic of...
25 July 2017
Deep sea mining could provide us with more renewable energy, however, it could have dramatic impacts on the things that...
25 July 2017
How a mathematical search theory can be used to hunt for sunken ships on the bottom of the ocean.
25 July 2017
How do underwater robots survive the intense pressures of the deep, and what are they being used for?
25 July 2017
What is it like to go thousands of metres beneath the waves?
25 July 2017
Why aren't the biggest animals always the fastest?
25 July 2017
Could a quantum computer the size of a football pitch reveal the meaning of life, the Universe and everything?
25 July 2017
We reveal the final entry for Marine Month's Critter of the Week.
25 July 2017
What kind of future awaits our oceans, and why should we care?
25 July 2017
How do astronauts keep breathing in space, and how could that help us down here on earth?
25 July 2017
Where does the carbon volcanoes expel into the atmosphere come from?
25 July 2017
Many people survive traumatic injuries, only to die from multiple organ failure in hospital, and we still don't...
21 July 2017
Traffic pollution in European cities can stall children’s brain development and stop them from reaching their full...
20 July 2017
Modern-day chemical engineers have built better batteries equipped with molecular pulleys...
18 July 2017
Researchers at the University of Stanford have found that as oil fields age they can produce up to ten times more...
18 July 2017
Imagine a tiny, thimble-shaped creature, invisible in water - and deadly. Step up, the Irukandji jellyfish!
18 July 2017
The ocean is a noisy place! Underwater acoustics explores what the watery world sounds like and what impact humans are...
18 July 2017
Scientists in Perth, Western Australia are using drones to collect samples from whales to study their health.
18 July 2017
The greatest migration on the planet occurs every day, in the ocean, and vertically.
18 July 2017
Our lives ultimately depend upon some of the smallest life forms on Earth - the constituents of the ocean microbiome.
18 July 2017
Two institutes on opposite sides of the Atlantic developed a joint course to encourage networking between early-career...
18 July 2017
How accurate is the primate science in War of the Planet of the Apes?
18 July 2017
The sea urchin may be a good model for understanding how immune responses work in humans and other vertebrates.
18 July 2017
Scientists in the US have come up with a set of steps which store the energy you expend when you descend, and then give...
18 July 2017
A region of the brain called the intraparietal sulcus becomes more active when volunteers expect to receive a shock.